Oklahoma Softball

After "making a statement" by stunning Oklahoma in the first game, UCLA softball fell in the second game of its Women's College World Series semifinal.

Saving their ace in case of a Game 2, Oklahoma offered sophomore Nicole May and freshman Jordy Bahl in the first game. Wisz and Brady, who each drove in a career-high five RBIs, led the offense while Megan Faraimo and Holly Azevedo kept the high-powered Sooners off balance. The Sooners (57-3) responded with their 40th run-rule victory of the season and handing UCLA its largest margin of defeat in school history. “It just kind of shows that we were a force to be reckoned with the whole time,” said center fielder Maya Brady, who hit two home runs during the first game. UCLA’s excitement of extending its season dissipated when Oklahoma scored six runs in the first two innings of Game 2. And before walking off the field, they joined their fans — a blue island in a sea of crimson and cream — for a final eight-clap, their last word on the sport’s biggest annual stage.

The Oklahoma Sooners face the UCLA Bruins in a Women's College World Series semifinal on Monday at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium.

She’s just really raw with excitement and love for the game, and her exuberance just is fun to watch.” “I think Jocelyn Alo is a big reason why this sport has gone to another level,” Gasso said. “I went into that game with all the confidence knowing we would walk out of it with the W,” Alo said of the second game. Maybe she did do that for that reason, because it’s not to kind of stick it in anybody’s face, it’s more about her excitement. “She’s the most confident young lady I’ve ever met in my life, to the point where you are like, ‘OK, don’t say that Jocy,’” Gasso said. “She is constant,” Gasso said.

The Oklahoma Sooners roared to the WCWS championship series with a resounding 15-0 win over the 12-time national champion UCLA Bruins.

Now they await the winner of the other semifinal this evening between the Oklahoma State Cowgirls and the Texas Longhorns. Either way, the Sooners will face a team that has a win over them. The Sooners added three more runs in the top of the second, this time off the bat of the NCAA all-time home run leader, who launched her own three-run home run of the season. Rylie Boone continued her hot Women’s College World Series with a two-RBI single to score Brito and Hansen. After Jana Johns singled to left to load the bases, Jayda Coleman picked up her second walk of the game, this time pushing home Green to make it 11-0 and load the bases for “Home Run Queen” Jocelyn Alo. Jocelyn Alo moved Coleman on a double to right-center and Tiare Jennings crushed a three-run home run for her 27th of the season to left. The ESPN broadcast caught video of Alo telling her teammates that they’d only need five innings in the second game. They beat the 12-time national champions 15-0 to advance to the Women’s College World Series championship and continue their quest to go back-to-back and win their sixth national championship.